If I wrote like that, particularly about something so important, I'd be called a dumb blonde faster than you can write "2."
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I read this article:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-chuck-grassley-prescription-drugs-cost-senate-amy-klobuchar
It's important to give doctors and patients the ability to choose the medications that work the best for them. Everyone's physiology is different. With so many drugs out there, it's not necessarily the best policy to say that the least expensive one is going to help every patient the most.
For example, although I have had a very stressful life for the past several years, and homeless shelters can be loud places to sleep at night, I have not taken medication for anxiety or sleep that has any designation as being a controlled substance. I prefer not to take controlled substances. No Xanax (alprazolam), no Klonopin (clonazepam), no Ambien or anything like that. A lot of people take trazodone for sleep. It's not a controlled substance. I tried it once. Not only did I not sleep, I was so sick with nausea and a debilitating headache the next morning that it took several hours before I could open my eyes or move without feeling like I was dying. I never took that medication again.
Also, the pharmaceutical industry is overmedicating people. Health care would be less expensive if the pharmaceutical industry had to stop taking advantage of the world by trying to put everyone on drugs.
You will also be able to save money if you eliminate incentives for impoverished parents to have their healthy children diagnosed with mental illnesses. There are parents who are struggling so much financially that they have their children declared mentally ill so that they can receive disability benefits for them. This is bad for a child's self-esteem and beliefs about his or her abilities. It is also very stigmatizing and sets the child up to be treated as if he or she is mentally deficient in school and in other situations. These diagnoses change the course of people's lives. The hundreds of dollars per month that they can bring into households aren't worth the damage that they cause. That's not even to mention the physical damage caused by psychiatric medications, which are severe and can last for the rest of someone's life.
There are pill-obsessed teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, and a plethora of other adults in the terrifying, hopeless labyrinth that childhood and adolescence now are, adults whose insistence on medication is hurting the children and teenagers whom they're supposed to be helping. People who are too lazy to work with young human beings shouldn't.
